Are email addresses mandatory for Windows 8 login names?
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I've got a computer running Windows 8 and in the user accounts I can see four accounts (they're in french, here's a rough translation):
- [email protected] / administrator
- Veronique YYY / [email protected]
- ASP.NET Machine Account / local account
- guest account / the guest account is desactivated
I've got several questions but they're all related to email addresses and login names / accounts.
Are email addresses mandatory for Windows 8 login names?
Can you mix live and non-live user accounts on a Windows 8 system?
Is it possible to have a live Windows 8 user account which is not using a @live.xx email address?
Is it possible to have a non-live Windows 8 user account which is using a @live.xx email address?
If the gmail.com email address of the admin is not a live Windows 8 account, does this mean I can create a "fake" email and use that as the email of a new Windows 8 account?
Basically I don't understand very well why there are email addresses displayed on the login screen and why there are both @live.xx and @gmail.com email addresses on the same system and answer to the questions I asked above may help me understand a bit better what is going on (I'm coming from a Linux / OS X background. I literally haven't used Windows in more than a decade).
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